AI incident
Microsoft Tay turned toxic within hours
Microsoft · 2016
Organisation
Microsoft
Year
2016
Failure mode
Manipulation / toxic output
Severity
major
Agentic
Yes — an AI system acting, not just advising
Source
Microsoft, 2016
What happened
A learning chatbot was steered by users into producing hateful content and was pulled.
What would have prevented it
Output guardrails + abuse red-teaming before release
Requirements this maps to
Editorial cross-reference from our prevention note — it is not a finding that any law was breached.